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This image comes from the 1906 Craftsman Magazine of a model kitchen

The need for efficiency housing during war-time created super-simple kitchens. Here we see a defense worker coming home to her efficiency kitchen

This is one of our favorite photos of an early kitchen. It shows some ingenuity and moves toward efficiency

An early ad for the Hoosier Cabinet

We love this photo from around 1900 showing the lady of the house enjoying her new stove.

This 1874 lithograph shows how an early kitchen functioned.

This illustration shows what a modern kitchen looked like in rare upper-class homes around 1911

This photo, taken between 1903-1910, shows Mrs. Arthur Beales working in her kitchen.

Here's an early photo from around 1890 of a Niagara Stove Co Stove set up in the kitchen. Baby's ended up spending some time there as well!

This illustration showed the aspirational view of a 1930's kitchen

Mrs. Temis Sullivan, coal miner's wife, in kitchen of her home in company housing project. Inland Steel Company, Wheelwright, #1 & 2 Mines, Wheelwright, Floyd County, Kentucky.

Community in 1945

Modern magazines began to promote more colorfully-trimmed kitchens after the war.

Kitchen in home of Sam Lontine, miner. Puritan Camp, Erie, Colorado.

Interior of kitchen at 54 Main Street, residence of James Ballantyne

Bring on the colors in the mid 1950s

Something more typical of the 1970s

Doris Day in her Malibu Kitchen in 1966

Students at Greene School T. Holland, Sheboygan County WI

Sheboygan, United States